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A very rare Meissen lacquered Böttger stoneware octagonal coffee pot and cover, circa 1711-13
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6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£40,000 - £60,000
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A very rare Meissen lacquered Böttger stoneware octagonal coffee pot and cover, circa 1711-13
Of octagonal baluster from with moulded panels beneath the glaze, decorated in Dresden in the workshop of Martin Schnell in imitation of lacquer in gilding and enamels on a black glaze with panels depicting chinoiserie figures, flowering plants issuing from rockwork, a crane, and vases with objects below birds in flight, the scroll handle and curved, faceted spout with gilt-edged stripes, the rim with a gilt border of stylised flower-heads, the domed cover with flower sprigs, the underside with a gilt flower, the inside of the cover gilt, 16cm high (rim section restuck, some wear) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Neumeister Munich, May 1974, lot 152;
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 8 July 2002, lot 2
Literature:
M. Kopplin et al., Schwartz Porcelain (2003), no. 87, p. 180, ill. 20
Exhibited:
Münster, Museum für Lackkunst, 'Schwartz Porcelain', 7 December 2003-7 March 2004;
Schloss Favorite bei Rastatt, 'Schwartz Porcelain', 29 March-27 June 2004
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace included six such octagonal black-laquered stoneware coffee pots under no. 52 - including two with silver mounts - along with a note that three were somewhat damaged (see Anette Loesch (ed.), "Sächsisch schwartz lacquirtes Porcelain" (2013), nos. A32-35, pp. 170f). None of these remain in the Dresden Porcelain Collection, though two (unmounted) examples, apparently without Japanese Palace inventory numbers, were sold from the Dresden Porcelain Collection in 1919 (Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 7-8 October 1919), lots 56 (the cover lacking finial) and 57 (unillustrated).
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Please note the spout and handle are restuck.
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